Older adults in cities are at lower risk of serious psychological distress when they live close to so-called green and blue spaces, which can include public parks, community gardens, cemeteries, and bodies of water.
looking at data from some 62 million Medicare beneficiaries found those living in areas with more vegetation saw lower risk of hospitalizations for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
The investigators acknowledged that their findings were limited by reliance on a self-reported measure of psychological distress.In a comment, Anjum Hajat, PhD, an epidemiologist at University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle who has also in older adults, noted some further apparent limitations of the new study, for which only an abstract was available at publication.
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